US Patent Issued to Concept Laser on Sept. 30 for "Fill level sensing devices and additive manufacturing apparatuses including same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,367, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Concept Laser GmbH (Lichtenfels, Germany).

"Fill level sensing devices and additive manufacturing apparatuses including same" was invented by Florian Betz (Lichtenfels, Germany) and Olaf Jager (Lichtenfels, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are particulate separation systems including a filter device that separates particulates from a particulate-laden stream generated by an additive manufacturing apparatus. A collection container is also included which is fluidly connected to the filter device and receives the particulates separated from the particulate-laden stream. A ...